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I love the game of football. It is America's passion for a reason.
Athletes learn invaluable life lessons from their participation in football at whatever level they participate. The ability to stay self-disciplined, put hard work ahead of immediate...

The New England Patriots have been the model franchise for the National Football League.
Owner Robert Kraft embodies all the best values we look for in sports — character, integrity, stability and high standards for off-field behavior. They were...

By Chuck Schilken
, Ex-Vikings punter: I was fired by a bigot and two cowards

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| Jan 3, 2014
| 10:36 AM

Former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe wrote a a lengthy and scathing column, published online Thursday by Deadspin, detailing the reasons he feels he was released by the team prior to the 2013 season.
Kluwe, who spent all eight of his NFL...

LAGUNA BEACH — The Costa Mesa High Mustangs ventured to Guyer Field Friday with a single goal in mind — to win an outright Orange Coast League football championship.
Blending a determined focus with a quick start that overwhelmed Laguna...

The end of the college football season occurs this weekend for some teams which means that the first group of athletes eligible for the draft can sign with agents.
Securing new clients is the critical rite of passage for agents. There are many qualified...

Kelly Slater hasn't done it.
Neither has Rob Machado, Sunny Garcia nor Tom Curren.
Not when it was called the OP Pro, or more recently, the U.S. Open of Surfing.
In fact, nobody on the men's side has ever won the U.S. Open of Surfing three...

Traditional agentry has too often been lampoonish, cartoonish, greedy and destructive to clients and sports itself.
Some of the basic concepts, which are slavishly adhered to, are just wrong. The battle in sports ought not be labor versus management....

COSTA MESA — For the second time in three weeks, Estancia High tailback Robert Murtha broke a Newport-Mesa career record.
Seeing Murtha surpass the district touchdown record of 49 didn't matter Friday to Coach Mike Bargas. The record that does is...

Former FBI director Louis Freeh concluded one of the most horrifying investigations in the history of collegiate sports this week.
In the wake of years of sexual abuse of young men by assistant coach Jerry Sandusky of Penn State, often in the shower room...

COSTA MESA — To look at it one way, the Costa Mesa High football team was just 14 points from going undefeated in the Orange Coast League this year.
The Mustangs lost by just two points to Estancia and two points to Godinez.
But the Mustangs...

It was a love story for the ages, and America was transfixed.
Superstar Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o meets a beautiful Stanford coed after a game there and over the succeeding years they fall in love. There are reports of her visiting his family...